A possible tremendous battle between Jon Jones and Alex Pereira is now “off the desk” after the latter’s loss at UFC 313, in accordance with present interim heavyweight kingpin, Tom Aspinall — who stays much more assured of dealing with the Rochester native this summer season.
Headlining the promotion’s flagship return to Las Vegas in a single day, Pereira noticed his dominant run as mild heavyweight kingpin halted by the surging Russian contender, Magomed Ankalaev in an argued resolution loss.
Dropping a contentious unanimous resolution (48-47, 48-47, 49-46) loss to the Makhackala native, Pereira voiced his disagreement with the end result, suggesting he was merely grappled and wrestler. And pointed to his eleven takedown defenses, in addition to a perceived lack of injury dished out towards him.
“Placing me up towards the cage, he (Magomed Ankalaev) didn’t actually do something. “Pereira advised Joe Rogan throughout his post-fight interview by way of an interpreter. “Giving him the win with a gameplan like that, it incentivizes folks to do this.”
And “in all probability” set to battle Ankalaev in a direct rematch subsequent in accordance with promotional boss, Dana White, Pereira’s future in an excellent battle at heavyweight is “off the desk” in case you ask unification hopeful, Aspinall.
Tom Aspinall claims Alex Pereira can’t battle Jon Jones subsequent
“Yeah, that’s [a fight between Jon Jones and Alex Pereira] off the desk now,” Tom Aspinall stated on his YouTube channel. The Alex Pereira battle at heavyweight or some other weight actually. Yeah, Jon, there’s just one method, there’s just one factor to do mate, signal the contract and let’s get a date going.
“And I do know we’ve seen final evening Dana White was speaking, every little thing is now completed on Jon’s facet and the UFC now must discover a date and a venue, a spot,” Tom Aspinall revealed. “So we’re ready for that, we’ve obtained some excellent news coming quickly hopefully.”
